Trump’s horrible bill also creates an extra $250 charge just to visit the US at all
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This sounds like a massive bureaucratic disaster just waiting to be unrolled in time for the World Cup etc.:
The United States will require international visitors to pay a new “visa integrity fee” of at least $250, added to existing visa costs, according to a provision in the Trump administration’s recently enacted domestic policy bill.
The fee will apply to all visitors who are required to obtain nonimmigrant visas to enter the United States. This includes many leisure and business travelers, international students and other temporary visitors. In fiscal year 2024, the US issued nearly 11 million nonimmigrant visas, according to State Department figures.
Tourists and business travelers from countries that are part of the Visa Waiver Program, including Australia and many European countries, aren’t required to obtain visas for stays of 90 days or less.
Somebody who knows something about how visas to the US work (not me) should comment on this, but at first glance it looks like a “huge financial disincentive for people from Certain Countries If You Know What I Mean” not to enter the US at all.
The fee is technically refundable, but guess what there’s currently no mechanism for refunding it, although I’m sure the people tasked with protecting the integrity of the soil around Des Moines IA will get right on that.
The Department of Homeland Security, the agency instituting the new fee, has not yet offered specifics about the refund process or any other aspects of the policy’s rollout.
“The visa integrity fee requires cross-agency coordination before implementation,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.
A State Department spokesperson said the fee was established “to support the administration’s priorities of strengthening immigration enforcement, deterring visa overstays, and funding border security.”
Fees that aren’t reimbursed will be “deposited into the general fund of the Treasury,” the provision in the bill says.
As always, people who say well at least Trump isn’t a competent fascist are missing the point that fascism celebrates and embraces government incompetence in all areas other than the Thought Police, so the whole idea of a competent fascist is basically an oxymoron.
OTOH the potential silver lining here is that merely rolling out this program at all may require a minimal level of competence that Stephen Miller’s Gestapo may not be able to achieve. But it sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.